Improvement in hand-stamps tor cutting checks, bonds



P.; com' 8p JQ 11. BROWN. 1 v HANDV STAMP FOR CUTTING CHECKS., BONDS,6nd. 1 110, 103,146;` j Patented 'May 17, 1870.

. To all whom ft may concer-n iii-titled mes gaat come;

JOHN F.1OORY AND JACOB H. BROWN, OF BROOKLYN, E. D., NEW YORK.

team Patent No. 103,146, rvam: May 1r, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! thesame Be it known that we, J OHN'F. Cour aud J Aeon H. BROWN, both ofBrooklyn, E. D., in the county of .Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Stamps for'cutting Checks,Bonds, Sto.; and we do hereby declare the-following to be a full, clear,and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe'art to make and use the same, reference beingr had to theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in whichdrawing-- Figurel is afront elevation of this invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section.

Figure 3vis a side vicw of one of the punches to which alever is-applied.V

Figure 4 is a plan of the holder J.

Similar letters indicatev corresponding parts.

This invention relMzes to apparatus for cutting out from checks, notes,and other papers of valuetig ures or characters representing the valuesor' runningv numbers which the checks or other papers bear, so as toprevent fraudulent alterations of their value or numbers. i

f The invention consists in the arrangement in a suitable frame of aseries of punches whose faces are provided with punching-dies having theform of the characters, figures, or designs to be employed, and whichpunches work against a bed-plate in which are formed female orcounter-dies of like form, into which the punching-dies work, so as tocut out from any paper interposed between them the form of the letters,figures, or designs represented on the dies.

Our invention consists, further, in combining with the punchingapparatus, a holder for holding the check or paper while Vit is linden'the action of the apparatus.`

The letter' A designates a series of spring-punches whose stocks arearranged to move vertically in a horizontal bar, B, which is supportedover a bed-plate, O, by the brackets D D.

The punch-stocks are guided in their movements by screws E, which extendthrough the back of the bar .into grooves' formed in the stocks, so asto prevent the stocks from turning on their axes, andA they aresupported on the bar by spiral springs F, which raise them 11p aftereach descent 'in operating upon acheck or other paper. l i

The several punch-stocks are surmounted by heads G, of asuitable form tobe operated upon by the hand of the-operator, or they can be provided,as is shown in the case of one of them in fig. 1, with a lever, like H,

Vhaving its fulcrum on the bar B, or in brackets extending therefrom. l

We provide the faces of the punch-stocks with punching-dies arranged ina. series, and formed to represent the characters which it is designedto use on the checks or papers, the lirst -one of the series bearing onit a. die representing and intended to cut a terminal character for thebeginning or end of the row of iigures or characters that are cut outfrom the check,

and the succeeding punches of the series having thereon the figures orcharacters designed to be used for expressing value, and which, in thisexample, are the numerals 1, 2, 3, Sac.

-It is only neeessaryto represent the several units up to vnine and acypher, (0,) after which, for conven-j ience in manipulating theapparatus, another termilnal character may close the series, if desired.

Directly under or opposite to the faces of the punches we provide aseries of open or counter-dies, I, into or Athrough which thecutting-edges of the male` dies work, so as to cut out fromanyinterposed check or paper the figure or character producedon thepunches,v the female dies being respectively counterparts of the maledies which are opposite to them.

In order to present and submit a check or other paper in a convenientand proper manner to-the apparatns, we'have provided a sliding holder J,which works in guides K K. on the bed-plate.,

This holder has a longitudinal slot, L, through its center, so as not tocover the counter-dies I, andit is pmvided on its surface with flatsprings PIv, under which the checks, 85o., are confined to the holderwhen they are submitted to the action ofv the apparatus.

The exposed surfaces of the holder' or of the springs which are arrangedthereon, or both, have register marks M, which serveasgnides to theoperator with reference to the punches, when operating the slidingholder, whereby he is enabled to present the check or other paper spacedin a proper manner v tov theA several punches.

\Ve have in this example arranged the series of punches in a straightline and in a stationary bar, but they can be arranged, if desired, in acircle, Vand the frame or bar in which they work can be made to rotatealong with the bed in which the counter-dies are formed, and thecheek-holder can' be made to .move A forward for the space of onefigure, while the punches are caused to move so that each punch shall bebrought to the check, instead of, as is here shown, the check beingmoved along under the punches successively.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The spring punches A provided with cutting-dies i representing guresor characters as set forth, combined with female counter-dies I arrangedin series, and in such, a manner that the male and female dies arecounterparts of each other respectively, substantially as described.

2. The punches A and bed-plate C, provided .with female dies I, incombination with the sliding spring holderJ, substantially as described.

This specification signed by us this 12th day of April, 1870.

. JOHN F. CORY.

JACOB H. BROWN.

Witnesses t O. WAnLnRs, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

